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zacoderon Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to achieve a fitness habit?

And in all of that training discipline is a small part? Who is the bullshitter now?

zacoderon Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to achieve a fitness habit?

I'm afraid that you misunderstood. I was the one wasting time with you. You're clearly having a problem with maintaining a fitness habit. Don't blame me if don't like the reality. I'm just giving you the cold hard truth everybody else tries to sugarcoat.

zacoderon Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to achieve a fitness habit?

I know you love talking out of your ass. But if you ever decide to push yourself for more than two months, you will understand that a fitness habit never feels forced. You will chase it in an active manner because you will love it.

Ask any fit or sporty individual you know. They don't do it because they have to. They do it because they want to.

The boredom you mentioned is natural. Everybody gets it at the exact same strength and at the exact same moments. The difference is that some people are disciplined enough to continue and burn through it. And only then you get to see the fun and enjoyment part.

Discipline is king. With anything else you're just lying to yourself. Nobody will create the perfect environment for you to be comfortable with physical effort. You're the one that has to do it.

zacoderon Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to achieve a fitness habit?

I'm not impressed by the excuses you give to yourself.

zacoderon Ask HN: Why is it so difficult to achieve a fitness habit?

Because you lack discipline. You never learned to accept pain and effort now for a valuable gain in the future. You're chasing pleasure and trying to avoid pain. And you're simply living in the present, satisfying every random whim and craving.

Every good thing in your life comes at a price. You may not see it yet, but there are no freebies. If you want a fitness habit, you need to pay for it with time and effort. There are no magic solutions. You simply need to force yourself to suffer. Embrace the pain. If you're not feeling like you're dying, you're doing it wrong.

Go do 10 push-ups right now. Get up from your chair and do them. There is nothing really stopping you. Only the excuses you make for yourself.

zacoderon Why do UI/UX designers not help without charging?

Time costs money. And you want free time from other people. That little piece of advice you really really need might take a half an hour for an UI designer to write or talk about. And that half an hour can easily be charged to someone else who is willing to pay for it.

It's just supply vs demand. UI/UX design is in very high demand. Every startup and entrepreneur wants a logo, graphic design or a website. Why waste time helping someone out for free when you can charge for it?

zacoderon Ask HN: What companies have innovative process for interviewing engineers

Sounds like a normal interview.

zacoderon I Don't Agree That There Really Is a Tech Worker Shortage

Yeah, that's called experience.

zacoderon I Don't Agree That There Really Is a Tech Worker Shortage

Every company has it's own "books" they want you to read. At Facebook you work on a social network, at Google on a search engine. If you apply to 10 jobs, you need to read 10 different books.

"But you can't be arsed to make that small investment in yourself before applying for a new job?"

Bills don't pay themselves. Why can't you, the employer, be arsed to make that small investment in your new employee? You're the one with the capital.

"Your job as an engineer entails constantly learning and trying new things in order to find the best solution"

Exactly, job. As in getting paid for it. Not sure why you think it's a duty. A sacrifice that employees must make for you.

"I might as well give the work to a much cheaper coder in an off shore sweatshop."

Enjoy the results. :)

zacoderon I Don't Agree That There Really Is a Tech Worker Shortage

"I don't care about paid experience ... we hired lots of people from open source projects".

"The better demonstration of grasping computing technology is actually having done something with a computer".

So you do care about experience.

zacoderon Ask HN: What's the biggest problem of this world that we need to solve?

Greed.

It's the only thing that destroys everything it touches. And it often has massive reach and repercussions.

zacoderon Ask HN: Do you know other firms like Valve or GitHub?

You mentioned a base salary for everybody. Can you give me a specific number?